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Gay rights on long list of proposed changes to immigration bill

Vermont Sen. Patrick’s Leahy’s amendments would recognize same-sex marriages in which one spouse is an American, and also would allow U.S. citizens to sponsor foreign-born same-sex partners for green cards as long as there’s proof of a committed relationship.

They were among dozens of amendments filed with the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday as the panel prepares to take up the legislation later this week.

“For immigration reform to be truly comprehensive, it must include protections for all families,” Leahy said. “We must end the discrimination that gay and lesbian families face in our immigration law.”

Other amendments proposed by committee members include a proposal by Alabama GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions to significantly cut the number of foreign workers granted admission to the United States under the bill.

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And, again… Are we going to provide green cards to the Harems of various middle easterners? How about South African tribes? Displaced Mormons with multiple wives? Oh that’s right… We throw them in jail…

Some animals are more equal than others.

(It really frightens me how often I’m quoting Orwell these days to current events…)

What about the amendments for communal groups and any conceivable combination people, places, and things that one might “fall in love with”?

This is what I have been warning about gay pretend marriage from the beginning. It’s an idiotic idea that has nothing to do with “family” in any reasonable sense. But, the leftist mission is complete; the concept of marriage has been rendered moot and empty.

Cruz to file amendment to not grant citizenship. God, I love my senator. This fight will be won or lost in the House. Too many RINO traitors (senators) have been bought off by the cheap labor lobby to stop it on the senate.

Rush Hudson Limbaugh has been married multiple times and he is your terrestrial proxy for Jesus.

Capitalist Hog on May 8, 2013 at 1:47 PM

Sen. Leahy’s amendment basically means that you can claim anyone, anywhere as your spouse and have them imported into the country. That system is asbolutely rife with potential for fraud and abuse – there is absolutely no stigma for two men or two women claiming to be married. People shrug at it now because saying something about it is more stigmatized then actually doing it.

Once marriage means anything it means nothing, and becomes nothing more than a legal means to circumvent a massive number of laws. Sen. Leahy wants those circumventions to include immigration laws.

“For immigration reform to be truly comprehensive, it must include protections for all families,” Leahy said. “We must end the discrimination that gay and lesbian families face in our immigration law.”

If it has to be comprehensive–and I don’t believe it needs to be–it doesn’t have to be so comprehensive as to include matters relating to sex that involves fecal matter and foreign objects.

When is the last time we actually had a post about adultery? I swear most people can’t stand Sanford for what he did to his wife. Most of us didn’t want him to run again, but as soon as he won the primary- he was better POLITICALLY than his opponent. Please show us where we actively “support” adulterers.

If it has to be comprehensive–and I don’t believe it needs to be–it doesn’t have to be so comprehensive as to include matters relating to sex that involves fecal matter and foreign objects.

BuckeyeSam on May 8, 2013 at 2:39 PM

Many heterosexuals’ sex lives include anal sex and sex toys, and many gay couples’ sex lives do not. Are you willing to apply these criteria to both or are these activites disqualifying only when done by gay men and women?

Not big on English, I see. If you don’t know what the word “hypocrite” means then you shouldn’t use it. It makes you look like a moron.

Adultery does not destroy the concept of marriage. It might destroy individual marriages, as is reasonable, but not the very concept of marriage since adultery is NOT PART OF MARRIAGE, you blithering idiot. It is a violation of the oath, not a total perversion and destruction of the definition, itself.

Many heterosexuals’ sex lives include anal sex and sex toys, and many gay couples’ sex lives do not. Are you willing to apply these criteria to both or are these activites disqualifying only when done by gay men and women?